Dennis Cady, Pinal County Planning and Development Director

Cady told Mary Ellen Kazda the details of the new schedule during the September 20^th Planning and Zoning work session held in Florence.

The only commonality between the old and new schedules is that the completion date was not changed.

Pinal County has not yet placed the updated schedule on their web site. 

Cady also made a draft of the Water Resources Element of the Comprehensive Plan available to Kazda at the meeting.  However, the draft Water Resources Element does not contain an analysis showing that there is sufficient water to sustain the massive development authorized by the current draft Comprehensive Plan.  State law requires such an analysis.

As a public service, PoisonedWells.com has created a version of the new schedule in the same form used by Pinal County.  Perhaps Pinal County will copy the new schedule below to their web site thereby informing residents of the changes.

The new schedule follows;  important dates are highlighted in yellow. 
 

New Schedule for adoption phase   New Tentative Schedule for adoption of the Plan is: DATE TIME PLACE September 26     Water Resources Element of Pinal Comprehensive Plan delivered to the Oracle Courthouse to allow review by local residents. September 27 9 a.m. - 12 N  Work Session/ Staff & P&Z Commission, Pinal County Complex, Bldg. F, EOC Room  October 1     60 Day Review Period Begins  October 3   6 p.m. to 8 p.m.  Special meeting to allow residents of the San Manuel area to provide input on Water Resources Element of Pinal Comprehensive Plan.  There will be no spedial meetings to allow residents of the other planning areas to provide input on the Water Resources Element of the Pinal Comprehensive Plan.  The special meeting for San Manuel area residents will be held at the BHP conference room, 111 5th Ave, San Manuel. November 29  60 Day Review Period Ends December 6  9 a.m.   Amended Comprehensive Plan, reflecting changes from the 60 day review period, will be revealed to the public for the first time at a Public Hearing before the P&Z Commission.  The meeting will be held in the Pinal County Complex, Bldg. F, EOC Room   December 19   9 a.m.   Public Hearing before the Board of Supervisors, Pinal County Complex, Bldg. A (Tentative Date)

Of interest:

• The new schedule calls for adoption of the plan by December 19, no matter what objections arise from the 60 day review period. 

 
• Pinal officials have been hurriedly trying to complete the plan as early as possible so as  to get back to the business of rezoning massive tracts of land for development.


The new schedule calls for a meeting October 3 to reveal the Water Resources Element of the Pinal Comprehensive Plan -- but only to residents of the San Manuel Area.

Residents from other planning areas in the county will not see the Water Resources Element until the hearing with the P&Z Commissioners on December 6.

Since it will be impossible to read, analyze and comment the Water Resources Element at the December 6 meeting, residents from other planning areas who don't attend the special meeting at San Manuel will not be able to comment on the Water Resources Element until the December 19 Pinal Board of Supervisors hearing where the BOS will give their final approval to the plan.
 

• The new schedule moves the public hearing with the P&Z Commissioners to December 6, after the end of the 60 day review period ends. 


Since the 60 day review period ends on November 29, Cady's Planning and Development department will have 4 working days to incorporate changes arising from the public review prior to the hearing before the P&Z Commissioners.

Unfortunately, the first time residents will be able to see the final plan containing amendments arising from the 60 day review will be at the December 6 P&Z hearing.

Since it will be impossible to read, analyze and comment on the final plan during the 2 hour hearing on Dec. 6, residents will not be able to comment on the final plan until the December 19 Pinal Board of Supervisors hearing where the BOS will give their final approval to the plan.
 

• The new schedule corrects a flaw in the prior schedule. 


In the old schedule, the hearing before the P&Z Commissioners was scheduled to occur on October 11 before the end of the 60 day review period. 

This would have been problematic as the Commissioners would have had to recommend that the Board of Supervisors adopt the Comprehensive Plan before changes arising from the 60 day review had been incorporated in it.